Ticket or check delivering machine



PATENTED SEPT. 20, 1904 W. H. GHAMPLIN. TICKET OR CHECK DELIVERING MACHINE.

. APPLIOATION'FILED APR. 18. 1904.

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No. 770,558. I PATENTBD SEPT. 20, 1904. W. H. GHAMPLIN.

TICKET 0R CHECK DELIVERING MACHINE.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 20, 1904 PATENT OEEic-E.

TICKET OR CHECK DELIVERING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 770,558, dated September 20, 1904.

Application filed April 18, 1904:.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. CHAMPLIN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket or Check Delivering Machines, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a machine or apparatus for containing a quantity of tickets or checks and having the capability in the operation of the machine to deliver the tickets or checks in consecutive order.

The machine is especially designed for use in barber-shops, so that persons entering for service will in order have a ticket delivered from the machine showing the order in which he will be attended to in the shop and for the avoidance of disputes and embarrassment. As the machine is constructed it is adapted to receive the delivered tickets consecutively back to itself at the time when the person who had received the ticket takes the chair, and the tickets returned to the machine are successively passed into the ticket containing chamber of the machine, and the rotation or consecutive order of the tickets may be maintained generally in the return of the tickets to and into the machine as well as was done in the delivery thereof from the machine.

Other objects are to generally improve, simplify, and render certain, practicable, and convenient ,the parts and devices which in their organization constitute the machine.

The invention consists in combinations and arrangements of parts and devices and the constructions thereof, all substantially as hereinafter described, and set forth in the claims.

An exemplification of the present machine is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it at this time being stated that many changes in respect to form, dimension, design, and minor details may be made without departing from the actual invention.

Figure l is a vertical sectional view as taken centrally from front to rear through the machine. Fig. 1 is a perspective view in detail.

Fig. 2 is a front view of the machine with a portion broken out for clearer illustration. Section-line l 1 on Fig. 2 indicates the plane on which the section, Fig. l, is taken.

Figs.

Serial No. 203,594, (No model.)

3 and 4 are horizontal cross-sectional views on lines 3 8 and 4t 4 of Fig. 1, respectively, the

ticket-delivering slide in Fig. 4 being shown horizontally in the guideways dd therefor and is provided with opposite upturned flanges f f, a handle or hook g at its forward end, and at its rearward portion it has an abutment k to engage edgewise and at its rear the lowermost ticket of the stack in the chamber B, said abutment being most practicably constituted by a plate a, having a thickness no greater, and preferably somewhat less, than the thickness of the tickets (0, and the length from front to rear of the plate exceeds the front to rear dimension of the ticket-chamber. The slide is normally retained in its inward or rearwardly slid position by the connection therewith of the cord 70, which has running engagements partially around the guiding-sheaves ff and which supports the weight j Atthe front opening his pivotally mounted the detent m, the desirable form of which is represented in Fig. 1, the same being pivotally hung in small metallic cheek-plates m, which may be tightly fitted into sawkerfs therefor in the front of the cabinet, said plates having alined perforations m for the end pivot projections m of the detent device m, which, as apparent, is forwardly yielding in the path of the ticket in delivery and operative after the rear edge of the ticket has been drawn forwardly beyond it to swing back with a lower edge portion or portions thereof across the ticket-delivery opening 6 to prevent then a rearward movement of the delivered ticket which may rest on the slide upon the return movement of the latter.

A slot at is formed through the horizontal top 0 of the cabinet, the width thereof being sufficient for the free passage edgewise therethrough of the tickets :12 one at a time into the ticket chamber or compartment B.

After a customer entering the shop has received his ticket by the operation of the ticketdelivery device already described and sufiiciently understood he retains it for his check until he enters a chair, at which time the ticket is placed in the ticket-holder D at the top of the machine and there displayed conspicuously to all in waiting until a succeeding customer enters some chair, whereupon the ticket-holder D, which is movable, is shifted to permit the ticket that is slidably engaged with the ticket-holder to fall while in a forwardly and downwardly inclined position down through the slot 12 and to assume a disposition face upward on the top of the pile.

The ticket-holder, as shown, consists of a normally vertical plate 39, having rearwardlyturned earpieces' g, by which at r it is pivotally connected with an upright s at the top of the cabinet, said plate 39 having opposite vertical angular flanges or lips 6, within which the opposite margins of the ticket may be engaged, the top of the cabinet forming the stop or rest for the lower edge of the ticket; but of course when the ticket holder or frame is shifted to the position represented in the dotted line, Fig. 1, in line with the slot at the ticket will slide downwardly out of the holder and into the ticket-compartment B.

0; represents the retracting-spring for the ticket-holder.

In order that the ticket may not become wedged or bound and prevented from assuming the flat disposition facewise upward, as desired, the opposite sides of the chamber B has its walls at the upper portions thereof recessed, as represented at M, such recesses having beveled or inclined margins, as best seen in the horizontal section, Fig. 3.

As shown, the cabinet is constructed with a secondary compartment B at the rear of the compartment B, from which the tickets are fed and delivered, as before described, and this space may be utilized for the stowage of an additional or fresh supply of tickets. The compartments have the hinged doors F and G for the introduction of the tickets thereinto.

In the proportions of the parts representedv in the present drawings it will be inferred that the cabinet is constructed of wood; but of course it may be made of metal with the walls relatively thinner, such being merely a choice of material.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.

1. In a ticket-delivering machine, a casing or cabinet having a vertical chamber for a pile of tickets, provided with a horizontal top wall having a ticket-slot opening therethrough into the chamber, and said casing having an opening at the bottom thereof, and having a forwardly-leading opening at the bottom front portion thereof, and having the opposite walls at their upper portions formed with the recessed inner faces, at, having beveled margins, as shown, in combination with a ticket-delivering slide under the chamber on which the lowermost ticket of the pile may rest, and provided with an abutment to rearwardly edgewise engage the lowermost ticket.

2. In a ticket-delivering machine, a casing or cabinet having a vertical chamber for a pile of tickets, with an opening at the bottom thereof and a forwardly-leading opening 5 at the bottom front portion of the casing, and having a ticket-entrance opening. at the top, in combination with a ticket-delivering slide member under the chamber on which the loW- ermost ticket of the pile may rest, and provided with an abutment to rearwardly edgewise engage the lowermost ticket, the metallic cheek-plates m fitted in the cabinetfront at the opposite ends of said opening 6 and provided with the alined perforations m and the detent-bar arranged across the front of the opening 6 and having the end projections m pivotally engaged in said perforations of said clieelcplates.

3. In a ticket-delivering machine, a casing or cabinet having a vertical chamber for a pile of tickets with an opening at the bottom thereof, a forwardly-leading opening at the bottom front portion of the casing, and having a ticket-slot at the top, in combination with a ticket-delivering slide arranged for a reciprocating movement under said chamber, and provided with a ticket-engaging abutment, and a holder at the top of the casing for receiving and displaying a ticket, and with which the ticket has a slidable engagement, such holder being movable to carry the ticket into coincidence with said slot whereby it may drop therethrough into the ticket-containing chamber of the casing.

4. In a ticket-delivering machine, a casing or cabinet having a vertical chamber for a pile of tickets with an opening at the bottom thereof, a forwardly-leading opening at the bottom front portion of the casing, and having a ticket-slot at the top, in combination with a ticket-delivering slide arranged for a reciprocating movement under said chamber, and provided with a ticket-engaging abutment, and a holder at the top of the casing for receiving and displaying a ticket, consisting of a normally vertically and pivotally mounted frame, having oppositely-located edgewise-provided angular lips to engagement with which the marginal portions of the tickets may be brought, said frame being arranged and adapted, on a swinging movement thereof to present the ticket in adown wardly and forwardly inclined position in line with said slot.

5. In a ticket-delivering machine, a casing or cabinet having a vertical chamber for a pile of tickets with an opening at the bottom thereof, a forwardly-leading opening at the bottom front portion of the casing, and having a ticket-slot at the top, in combination with a ticket-delivering slide arranged for a reciprocating movement under said chamber, and provided with a ticket-engaging abutment, and a holder at the top of the casing for receiving and displaying a ticket, consisting of a normally vertically and pivotally mounted frame, having oppositely-located edgewise-provided angular lips to engagement with which the marginal portions of the tickets may be WILLIAM H. CHAMPLIN.

Witnesses:

HARRY E. WHITE, WM. S. BELLOWS. 

